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Sarah Wright

Sarah has over 15 years’ experience in advising companies on how to protect, monetise and enforce their brands and designs.

Sarah advises clients in the Technology, Media and Communications, Life Sciences & Healthcare, and Fashion and Retail sectors. She handles a broad range of IP work from devising trade mark filing strategies, conducting clearances searches and managing international portfolios, through to advising on all types of contentious matters before UKIPO, EUIPO and UK Courts.

In addition, Sarah has experience of non-contentious matters including drafting and negotiating all types of licensing and franchising arrangements and co-existence agreements. Having spent her first 5 years at a very large city firm, she is equally adept advising on the IP aspects of corporate acquisitions and disposals. Sarah also routinely advises agencies and brands on advertising issues including pre-clearance advice and assists clients with ASA complaints.

Sarah’s approach is focused on providing strategic and pragmatic advice which delivers the client’s commercial objectives. Legal 500 describes her as “‘efficient and practical' in her approach”.

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On 14 Novem­ber 2018, the UK and EU Com­mis­sion pub­lished the draft With­draw­al Agree­ment, which re­flects the status of Brexit ne­go­ti­ations at ne­go­ti­at­ors’ level on the draft With­draw­al Agree­ment between the UK and the EU.

Why a new UK Sup­ple­ment­ary Un­re­gistered Design Right is a poor con­sol­a­tion prize for the loss of the Com­munity Un­re­gistered Design pro­tec­tion in post-Brexit Europe.
Com­munity Un­re­gistered Design Right (CUDR) cur­rently con­fers EU-wide pro­tec­tion for new designs.

On 24 Septem­ber 2018, the UK Gov­ern­ment pub­lished long-awaited guid­ance on how cer­tain as­pects of pro­tec­tion of EU geo­graph­ic­al in­dic­a­tions (GIs) will be treated in the event that no Brexit deal has been agreed pri­or to the UK’s exit from the EU on 29 March.

Brexit: European Com­mis­sion warns of can­cel­la­tion of .eu do­mains

Last week, the European Com­mis­sion pub­lished a No­tice to Stake­hold­ers warn­ing of the con­sequences of the UK leav­ing the EU to the over 300. 000. eu do­main names cur­rently re­gistered in the UK. Once the UK has left the EU on 29 March 2019, un­der­tak­ings which.

Sky v Skykick:
In his re­cent judg­ment of 6 Feb­ru­ary 2018, con­cern­ing Sky plc (“Sky”) and SkyKick Inc (“SkyKick”), Mr Justice Arnold posed five ques­tions to be re­ferred the CJEU re­gard­ing the valid­ity of trade marks, which if they are re­ferred, may have a sig­ni­fic­ant.

On 20 March 2018 the UK and EU Com­mis­sion pub­lished the draft With­draw­al Agree­ment (here), which re­flects the cur­rent status of Brexit ne­go­ti­ations between the UK and the EU. The text of the Agree­ment has been col­our-coded to show: (1) agreed terms that are.